Self

“The self is whatever we sense we have of ourselves at any given moment. And we draw that from our experiences. Experiences that are shaped by our identity. And our identity is a great muddle of things, a great many possibilities. That selves end up looking like an English home that was started in the sixteenth century, through a wing in the seventeenth century and then they thought ‘Well, why don’t we just connect the barn’. That kind of aggregation goes on until you have this wonky kind of building where you can’t get from one end to the other without going through all these little rooms. It’s a complicated apparatus, very different from the modernist idea.”